Kinnaird Estate By Dunkeld, Perthshire Kinnaird Estate By Dunkeld, Perthshire Once in a generation… +44 (0)1738 630666 +44 (0)131 222 9600 5 Atholl Place 80 Queen Street Perth PH1 5NE Edinburgh EH2 4NF [email protected] [email protected] www.bidwells.co.uk www.knightfrank.co.uk Kinnaird Estate By Dunkeld, Perthshire Lot 1 – Kinnaird House (About 37.29 Acres) Kinnaird House – 8 principal bedroom suites and 6 reception rooms u Fine formal gardens and mature wooded policies, tennis court 2 holiday cottages, 2 further houses, estate office and traditional estate yard Hilltop House – successful HMO short term lettings business u 4.83 acre paddock and 22.11 acres of mixed woodland Lot 2 – Milton of Kincraigie and Craignuisq (About 5,711.57 Acres) An extremely diverse estate of repute and great beauty, offering some of the finest sporting in Scotland u An attractive 2 bedroom farmhouse with traditional steading and 2 further cottages u A well-known, first class established pheasant and partridge shoot including duck flighting ponds u Red, Roe and Fallow deer stalking, walked up grouse shooting and rough shooting u 432.00 acres rough grazing and 3,967.67 acres hill u 3 hill lochs with 2 bothies and exciting brown trout and pike fishing u In-hand farm with modern farm buildings, 107.68 acres arable and 187.38 acres pasture u 844.57 acres of commercial and mixed woodland Lot 3 – Balmacneil House (About 8.48 Acres) A comfortable, family house – 7 bedrooms and 4 reception rooms u 3 bedroom integral cottage u Range of outbuildings, attractive formal gardens Ferry Cottage – a charming 2 bedroom cottage in a private riverside setting Lot 4 – Balmacneil Farm (About 164.16 Acres) A livestock farming unit including a 2 bedroom farmhouse and a 2 bedroom bungalow u Range of traditional and modern farm buildings Land consisting of 44.95 acres arable, 63.96 acres permanent pasture, 7.57 acres rough grazing and 44.44 acres amenity woodland Lot 5 – Balnamuir Farm (About 113.85 Acres) A compact stock and arable farm with a 4 bedroom farmhouse and a 1 bedroom cottage in need of renovation u Range of traditional and modern farm buildings Land consisting of 83.20 acres arable, 17.22 acres pasture and 6.17 acres amenity woodland Lot 6 – Upper and Lower Kinnaird Fishings (About 192.02 Acres) One of the most renowned fly fishing beats on the middle-Tay including part of the river Tummel u Lower Kinnaird Fishings – 2 miles of double bank fishing with 12 pools and fishing hut u Upper Kinnaird Fishings – 2 miles of double and single bank fishing with 10 pools and fishing hut Ghillie’s cottage and 2 former cottages with potential to create a wonderful riverside residence (subject to necessary consents) 5 year average 197.4 salmon and 20.8 sea trout For Sale as a whole or in 6 Lots About 6,227.37 Acres (2,520.12 Ha) These particulars are intended only as a guide and must not be relied upon as statements of fact. Your attention is drawn to the Important Notice on the last page of the text. HistOrical NOtE The first recorded history of Kinnaird is from the early 1600s when it was acquired by a family called Stewart. Debts forced the family to sell in 1773 and Kinnaird was bought by Mr Colquhoun Grant. After a time it was passed to Grant’s brother, Dr Gregory Grant, an Edinburgh physician. Dr Grant held the estate for a fairly short period and in 1798, Mr Chalmers Izzet, a prominent Edinburgh Hatter, bought Kinnaird and it was he who started building the house that you see today. Chalmers built the south west corner of the house that overlooks the gardens. Its original form can be clearly detected when the house is studied from the drive. Chalmers was a generous host. Two of Scotland’s most significant 19th Century literary figures stayed at Kinnaird at important points in their careers. The visit to Kinnaird by James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd was described in a memorial to him “In the summer of 1814, when making a tour in the Highlands, Hogg caught a severe cold. He remained till convalescent at Kinnaird House in Athole, the seat of Mr Chalmers Izett. Mrs Izett took a great interest in the poet, and entertained a high opinion of his genius. During his residence at Kinnaird, Mrs Izett one morning proposed that he should write something to “prevent his mind from rusting”. The poet was not a man to flinch when thus put on his mettle, and the result was “Mador of the Moor”. Mr Izzet owned the estate and House until 1824 when it was bought by James Stewart who sold it two years later to John, the 4th Duke of Atholl. The house was leased for a number of years by the Buller family of Edinburgh. Thomas Carlyle spent two years as tutor to Charles Buller, who later became a highly distinguished Liberal MP. In his own words, Carlyle described his life at Kinnaird as follows: “I lodged and slept in the old mansion, a queer, old-fashioned, snug enough, entirely secluded edifice, sunk among trees; hither I came to smoke twice or thrice in the daytime; had a good oak-wood fire at night and sat in seclusion, in a silence, not to be surpassed above ground”. The next full time occupant was Lady Emily Percy of the Northumberland Ilk who was married to Lord James, the first Lord Glenlyon, the second son of John, the 4th Duke. Lady Emily was an artist and her sketches of the surrounding areas and buildings give a vivid account of life in the latter part of the 19th Century. Around the turn of the 20th Century, the Atholl Estates were slimmed down for the first time in centuries and in 1927 the estate was sold to Sir John and Lady Ward. The Wards used Kinnaird as a sporting estate and lodge and the Ward parties became legendary. In 1928 the house was remodelled by WA Forsyth of Forsyth and Maule under the commission of Sir John Ward. They added the new main entrance, smoking room and billiard room. The estate remains in the family to this day. situatiON Kinnaird Estate is situated in Highland income streams, sporting and residential Perthshire amid dramatic scenery. From the assets. It is difficult to imagine a more rounded high ground the estate has spectacular views estate in Scotland. It has been run as one towards the hills of Atholl in the north, Ben business for the last 25 years. Vrackie to the east and Schiehallion and Ben The estate is centred on the very comfortable Chonzie to the west. This part of Strathtay Kinnaird House, with its attractive gardens and is truly the gateway to the Highlands. The wonderful mature policies that contain some countryside is a wonderful mix of productive of Scotland’s oldest and tallest trees. There are arable land lying adjacent to the meandering a total of 15 additional estate houses/cottages Tay, beautiful woodlands of ancient birch from which a holiday lettings business is run, and mature deciduous trees, higher pasture staff are accommodated and the remainder with a backdrop of heathery hill and rugged are let. The farming can be brought in-hand tops. It is a dramatic county with a beautifully which provides the purchaser with a great designed landscape that has been managed deal of scope to take this business forward in for centuries. whichever way they choose. Both the diversity Kinnaird is well located, elevated above and quality of the sport is unrivalled. The Strathtay with excellent transport links to estate offers the opportunity of a “MacNab” Perth, Edinburgh and Glasgow to the south (a stag, a salmon and a brace of grouse on the and Pitlochry to the north via the A9. Dunkeld same day). There is a world class pheasant is short drive away and has a railway station. and partridge shoot with signature drives and Pitlochry and Dunkeld provide day to day one of the finest beats of salmon fishings on needs and offer a good choice of hotels and Scotland’s premier salmon river. restaurants. The county town of Perth is within The sale offers a very rare opportunity to buy half an hour and has a complete range of one of the most sought after and accessible facilities, including a hospital, schools and sporting estates in Scotland. It is the complete a mainline railway station. In addition, Perth package. and Dundee airports can accommodate private aircraft. FarmiNg In addition to the sport offered at Kinnaird, All of the estate farmland will be offered vacant National Hunt racing takes place at Scone and represents an opportunity for the creation racecourse on the outskirts of Perth and there of a significant livestock and mixed farming are several golf courses to choose from nearby business. The farmland includes 240.66 including Pitlochry, Strathtay, Dunkeld and acres arable, 279.79 acres pasture and 455.39 Birnam. acres of rough grazing. The farming operation Edinburgh airport is 62 miles away providing provides great potential for a livestock regular flights throughout the UK and to a business to produce its own forage and finish range of international destinations. both lambs and cattle on the low ground. There are four steadings serving the farmland DEscriptiON being Milton of Kincraigie, Balnamuir, Balmacneil and Craignuisq, which are spread The Kinnaird Estate extends to 6,227.37 acres. across the estate and give access to both low It is well known as one of Scotland’s finest ground and the areas of hill.